Warner Bros wants to make Lord of the Rings films. Not remakes, fyi.

[MGibster]

I don't think the setting is what matters the most here. Someone with a good strong vision, meaning they've got a story to tell, could write a good story set at just about any period in Middle Earth. And I'm saying this as someone who has almost zero interest in anything to do with Middle Earth. One of the problems they have is that Tolkien wrote a fantasy masterpiece, and odds are good whatever story you write is going to fall short. And this is assuming the studio doesn't interfere with the good story like they do so often.

 

[ART!]

It sounds like the current deal gives them rights to adapt material from LOTR and The Hobbit. I'd love to see some Silmarillion adaptations, but that doesn't seem to be in the cards right now.

So, yeah, it sounds like an expanding LOTR/Hobbit universe, which means making up a lot of stuff, perhaps based on the LOTR appendices. Depending on the talent involved, any of this could be more or less "faithful" (whatever that means), and of more or less quality.

I default to optimistic, I try not to judge things for not being what I want them to be, and I mostly liked Rings of Power, so I'll probably at least somewhat enjoy whatever new stuff they wind up making.

 

[pukunui]

Not to mention there are still dwarves, hobbits, Ents, Bombadilses, and so on.

A movie about Merry and Pippin helping Treebeard find the lady ents could be fun!

 

[ValamirCleaver]

find the lady ents

Entwives

 

[pukunui]

Entwives

In that case, the movie can be about Merry and Pippin helping Treebeard find the very last entwife far to the east, and perhaps it can also involve the two blue wizards, whose names Gandalf couldn't remember.

 

[ValamirCleaver]

two blue wizards

Alatar and Pallando

 

[Aberzanzorax]

Theory: The show will be a cooking class entitled "Second Breakfast or Elevenses?"

 

[pukunui]

Alatar and Pallando

I know their names. I was referring to the joke in the Hobbit about how Gandalf couldn’t remember.

 

[Parmandur]

Well, Rings of Power is fantastic, but I have my doubts WB can do this if they cannot even handle Superman.

 

[Enevhar Aldarion]

A movie about Merry and Pippin helping Treebeard find the lady ents could be fun!

There aren't any left. Sauron had a bonfire.